This year more than 1,500 have already perished.
To the east, across a mountain range, was Syria, where a hundred thousand people had already perished.
His later efforts to raise a rescue party eventually led to the saving of many lives, though by then many had already perished.
"The sad truth remains that many have already perished and the coastguard urges all to reconsider taking the dangerous and illegal voyage at sea," he added.
Nearly 900 G.I.'s and more than 10,000 Iraqi civilians have already perished, and there is no end to the war in sight.
The relatives and friends of the 200,000 that have already perished in the Syrian conflict cannot even imagine a society that might create space for any kind of leisure time.
If the leak costs lives, let alone the careers and trust that have already perished amid the WikiLeaks disclosures, the case for action is even stronger.Nor should a government fear to act because its adversaries are popular and fight back.
Michael Diedring, the secretary-general of the European council for refugees, said the result of Mare Nostrum's winding-up would be "multiples of the 3,000 that have already perished".
In September 1986, Mr. Telyatnikov, who was still alive, and two of his colleagues who had already perished — among the 31 deaths acknowledged in the weeks after Chernobyl blew — received the nation's highest honor, Hero of the Soviet Union.
There's great debate about the number of fatalities following Chernobyl; the International Atomic Energy Agency has predicted that there will be only about 4,000 deaths from cancer, but a 2009 report published by the New York Academy of Sciences says that almost one million people have already perished from cancer and other diseases.
